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Keith Girard

Betsy DeVos Clueless on Policies She’ll Oversee as Trump Education Secretary

Keith Girard
Betsy DeVos, the billionaire businesswoman Donald Trump has picked as Education Secretary, proved to be remarkably clueless about federal education policy during a Senate confirmation hearing and flunked a key question about her position on allowing guns in schools. DeVos is best known as the chairwoman of the Windquest Group, a private investment firm. She has never spent a day much less a career teaching in the nation’s public schools and educated her children at private schools....
CONGRESS

Obamacare Repeal Without Replacement Would Be a Death Sentence for Millions

Keith Girard
Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is one thing, coming up with a replacement is another. More than 20 million people are currently twisting in the wind, according to a new report. It predicts a “death spiral” of rising uninsured and skyrocketing premium costs, if Republicans kill Obamacare. The Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump, at least for the moment, have been unable to come up with a “better, more affordable” alternative as they’ve promised....
CONGRESS

Major Media Drop Ball on Trump Russia Ties, Cowed by Right-Wing Media Bashing

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s ties to Russia is the biggest story of the 2016 election and perhaps the biggest political story since the Nixon administration Watergate scandal. But the major media was nowhere to be found when the Trump scandal was cracked wide open by a pop culture Web site. BuzzFeed, the online “new media” pop culture site, was the first to publish a series documents prepared by a retired British intelligence agent detailing explosive allegations about Trump’s deep involvement with Russia and the Kremlin’s efforts to blackmail him....
MEDIA

FBI Sat on Donald Trump Russia Dossier for Weeks Before Election, Brit Spy Says

Keith Girard
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had Donald Trump’s Russia dossier in its hands months before the election and failed to investigate the allegations, according to the retired British MI6 agent who compiled the documents. If true, it’s a shocking new level of corruption for the tarnished agency. In a stunning revelation, reported today in British newspapers, ex-MI6 agent Christoper Steele was so disturbed by the information he uncovered on Trump, he passed on his finding to the FBI and to British and American intelligence agencies....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Administration Not to Be Trusted With Secrets, Israeli Intel Officials Say

Keith Girard
Donald Trump may be best pals with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Israeli intelligence officials have drawn a line on sharing secrets with the Trump administration out of fear it could be leaked to Russia and Iran, according to a report out of Israel. The Israeli daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported today (Jan. 12) that Israeli intelligence officials are worried about sharing sensitive information with their counterparts in the Trump administration....
WORLD
Donald Trump cabinet officials should face contempt charges for ignoring impeachment subpoenas. (Photo: Getty)

Trump Russian Sex Romps Known to ‘Multiple’ Intel Agencies, BBC Reports

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s alleged sex romps in Moscow and St. Petersburg were known to “multiple intelligence sources,” who alleged that more than one episode was captured on both video and audio by the Russians for blackmail purposes, the BBC is reporting. The burgeoning scandal exploded yesterday after a series of documents were published detailing the blackmail operation and close ties between Trump, the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence operatives....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Sex Scandal, Russian Blackmail, Collusion Alleged by Ex-Brit Intel Agent

Keith Girard
Donald Trump has been carefully “cultivated” for at least five years by Russian agents who developed extensive ties to Trump’s presidential campaign and collected compromising details about his sexcapades for blackmail purposes, according to controversial memorandum supposedly prepared by an ex-British intelligence agent. The memo, which surfaced publicly for the first time yesterday is detailed and damning. But are the memos true?...
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Campaign Being Probed for Russia Hack Collusion, Sen. Graham Says

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s campaign is being investigated for possibly colluding with Russia in the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, according to Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. If Trump, or campaign officials were working with Russian agents or officials or had knowledge that Russia was engineering the theft of the emails it could be in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act....
LAW
Donald Trump is being sued by Maryland and the District of Columbia for 'unprecedented' corruption involving his company. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

None Dare Call It Treason: Did Trump Collaborate With Russia Election Hacking?

Keith Girard
Russia’s release of private Democratic emails only had a major impact on the election because Trump hammered on them in the last hours of the campaign, raising the one question that has yet to be answered by U.S. intelligence agencies. Was Trump actively collaborating with the Russians? U.S. intelligence agencies nailed “with a high degree of certainty” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Hits Wall on Hack Claims; Russians Cheered His Election, Secret Report Says

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s dissembling over Russian interference in the election has hit a wall. Details from a US intelligence report says high-level Kremlin officials “cheered” his election and considered it a “victory” over the United States. But that’s not all. The report details intercepted messages showing Russian officials discussing the hacking campaign against Democrats, and even identifies Russian officials who authorized third parties to pass stolen emails to WikiLeaks, according to reports....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Donald Trump Con: In Classic Bait and Switch, Wants Taxpayers to Pay for Wall

Keith Girard
Donald Trump displayed the art of the con in classic bait and switch on voters. He now wants taxpayers to pay for his Mexican wall and claims he’ll get the money from Mexico later. Another campaign promise bites the dust. Trump repeated over and over again that he would build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants. In a boast of his so-called negotiating acumen, he said, Mexico would pay the cost....
WHITE HOUSE

Donald Trump Security Advisor Mike Flynn Under Fire in Russia Hacking Hearing

Keith Girard
Donald Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn came under fire during a briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee for actively spreading “fake news” during the election, a move that could imperil his role in the administration. During today’s hearing, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, who ran as Hillary Clinton’s vice president, raised questions about Flynn’s role in disseminating fake news....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Harvard Law Prof Urges California, New York to Challenge Presidential Election

Keith Girard
Harvard law school professor Lawrence Lessig has sparked an effort to urge attorneys general in California and New York to challenge the presidential election in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the current system of allocating Electoral College votes deprives voters of their constitutional rights. A group called Taxpayers for Fairness has filed a petition on the site change.org, urging New York AG Eric Schneiderman to take action on behalf of New York voters....
ELECTIONSPOLITICS

Vladimir Putin Has Set Up Trump as ‘Cat’s Paw’ for Russian Aggression

Keith Girard
Vladimir Putin played a dangerous game when he interfered in the U.S. election to elect Donald Trump as president. The move brought into the open what our European allies have been warning us about: Russia’s campaign to undermine and ultimately destabilize the West. The campaign is taking modern asymmetrical warfare to a new and dangerous level, melding politics, diplomacy, militarism, cyber-warfare and disinformation into a coordinated assault on democracy....
POLITICS

Keith Girard

Keith Girard has four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.